Ministry of Environment and Forestry Detects 667 Hotspots in Indonesia, Most in East Nusa Tenggara (Wednesday, August 6, 2025)

Based on the SiPongi forest and land fire monitoring system of the Ministry of Environment and Forestry (KLHK), monitoring in the last 24 hours shows that 667 hotspots were detected in Indonesia. This number of hotspots increased by 264 points compared to the previous period.

The data is the result of Terra/Aqua, SNPP, and NOAA satellite imagery accessed on Wednesday (August 6, 2025) at 11:12 AM WIB. Of the 667 hotspots detected, 10 points have a high hotspot confidence level, 625 points are at a medium scale, and 32 points are at a low scale.

The hotspot confidence level is divided into 3 scales. The low scale ranges from 0 - 29, the medium scale from 30 - 79, and the high scale from 80 - 100. The higher the hotspot confidence level, the higher the likelihood of forest and land fires occurring in a particular area.

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Most detected hotspots were in East Nusa Tenggara with 196 points. West Nusa Tenggara ranked second with 91 hotspots. West Kalimantan was in third place with 56 hotspots.

A total of 49 hotspots were detected in South Sulawesi, Southeast Sulawesi followed with 39 hotspots, while East Kalimantan and Aceh each had 34 and 29 detected hotspots.

A hotspot is a coordinate point of an area that has a higher surface temperature compared to its surroundings, and is not the number of forest and land fire incidents.

However, a large number of clustered hotspots in an area indicates the occurrence of forest and land fires. This means that hotspot data from remote sensing satellite detection is still the most effective for monitoring forest and land fires over a wide area.

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